Carl Wirth (politician, 1810)

Carl Michael Claudius Wirth (born March 20, 1810 in Weilburg ; † November 14, 1880 in Hadamar ) was a Nassau civil servant and politician and a former member of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau .

Carl Wirth was the official secretary, administrator of the judiciary and later an official in the offices of Selters , Rennerod and Hadamar . After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia, he was released in 1866.

In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Between 1848 and 1851 he was a member of the Nassau Estates Assembly ( Club of Rights ). From 1852 to 1866 he was a member of the second chamber of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau. From 1848 to 1851 he was President of the Estates Assembly and from 1852 to 1858 of the First Chamber.

In the Reichstag elections in 1877 and 1878 , he ran for the German Center Party in the Reichstag constituency of Wiesbaden 5 district , but was unable to prevail against the national liberal incumbent Georg Thilenius with 26.2% of the vote .

literature

• Thomas Klein: The Hessians as Reichstag voters, first volume: Province of Hessen-Nassau and Waldseck-Pyrmont 1867-1933, 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0924-6 , p. 799.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 415.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , No. 38, p. 30.

Web links

• Wirth, Carl Michael Claudius. Hessian biography. (As of July 12, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).